The United States’ attempts to isolate Iran, including by punishing Iraqi militias and politicians who are supported by Iranian officials, has deepened tensions not only...
“What she said was she had been involved in horrific war crimes with the Air Force,” said Kevin Barrett, a controversial scholar of Islam who had an extensive conversation with Ms. Witt in the gilded lobby of the Parsian Azadi hotel. “And she just felt really bad about it.”
The Christian right doesn’t like Trumpt only for his judges. They like his style. The great thing about kings like Cyrus, as far as Christian nationalists are concerned, is that they don’t have to follow rules. They are the law.
International nuclear inspectors reported Tuesday evening that their mission to Iran had failed, with Tehran blocking their access to a site the inspectors believe could...
An Iranian official has confirmed that the government halted the death sentence by stoning of a woman charged with adultery, but he reiterated that she...
Mitsui officials said that crew members on the ship, the M. Star, had seen a flash and heard an explosion. They also dismissed earlier speculation...
U.S. officials say Amiri U.S. officials say Amiri voluntarily defected to the United States, then got cold feet, perhaps worried about his family in Tehran,...
CAIRO — As Iran’s universities prepare to start classes this month, there is growing concern within the academic community that the government will purge political...
While the young man was not identified, his charges were graphic and emotional, and documented official indifference — even callousness — toward his account. “I...
“I loved the city of Qum, which has beautiful turquoise dome mosques like a city you would imagine in ‘1001 Nights,’” Mr. Yaghobzadeh said. “There...
The accounts of prison abuse in Iran’s postelection crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have set off growing outrage among...
The wife of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi spoke out forcefully on Thursday against the recent publication of accusations against her imprisoned brother,...
A young woman, her clothing covered in blood, ran up Kargar Street, paused for a moment and said, “I am not scared, because we are...
One of the most recent arrests, of Bijan Khajehpour, an independent political economist, sent a chill deeper yet into Iran’s civil society because he had...
State-run television has interviewed protesters who said the Persian channel influenced them to take to the streets. One woman said the channel inspired her and...
Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, declared: “If a major breach occurs in an election, the Guardian Council may annul the votes that...
Despite his forceful words, however, Mr. Obama is still resisting calls from conservatives and Republicans to harshly and publicly condemn the Iranian government and impose...
“It is my gut feeling that Iran would like to have the technology to enable it to have nuclear weapons,” Dr. ElBaradei, the director general...
With the White House assuming a more central role in dealing with Iran, the Obama administration plans to move its senior Iran policy maker, Dennis...
It is here that the young women, paid $20 to $25 a day, can be seen at all hours assembling data to help election monitors...
“Five thousand innocent people were executed when you were in the government in the 1980s,” one woman told Muhammad Atrianfar a journalist who worked for...
“It is another way of saying we are not putting barriers in the way of communicating,” said one administration official. “It is another way of...
Obama talked of the possibility of “much stronger international sanctions” against Iran, undermining his groundbreaking earlier overture that included a core truth: “This process will...
Speaking of the development and deployment of a nuclear weapon, he said, “We’re not going to create a situation in which talks become an excuse...
Ms. Saberi’s arrest was part of this game. Her release now shows that the belief held by the majority is the common understanding among the...
Human rights groups have criticized Iran for sentencing minors to death. Iran says it carries out the death penalty only when a prisoner reaches the...
The Internet is no longer just an essential channel for commerce, entertainment and information. It has also become a stage for state control — and...
The judge in the case, Hasan Haddad, who is also deputy prosecutor for security issues, called the hunger strike claim a ploy “for propaganda purposes,”...
The proposals, exchanged in confidential strategy sessions with European allies, would press Tehran to open up its nuclear program gradually to wide-ranging inspection. But the...
Roger Cohen’s optimism about President Obama’s message aimed at rapprochement toward Iran will dissolve over the course of the next few months and years as...
